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Virtual reality teaching students cattle handling skills safely
A virtual reality (VR) program is helping students at the University of Adelaide develop livestock handling skills and confidence, without setting foot in a cattle yard.
Key points:
- The University of Adelaide has developed a world-first virtual reality cattle handling experience
- The program is designed to make courses that involve live animals safer for the students and the animals
- Virtual reality is being used in many areas of the university’s teaching to assist learning
VR is a three-dimensional environment generated by computers or cameras, which people can explore using special headsets or mobile devices.
In the cattle handling experience at the university, the students have to move the cattle between yards using the animal handling…
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